Dominating Principles in Economic Activity of Women from Islamic Pointof View

The examination of women's employment is regarded a problem of modern age. Decrease in the size of family, increase in the level of knowledge, promotion of medical standards, and the expansion of freedom debates could be mentioned among the factors which helped the issue to be created. While making a review of different approaches, this paper launches a religious approach to the problem; and examining the features of economic activity of women in the early Muslim society, especially focuses on the economic management of Khadijah (the wife of the holy Prophet) and Fatimah Zahra (a.s.). Jurisprudential injunctions about women's work are noted, then regarding the importance of learning and spiritual and social growth of women and the need for economic activity, the obligations of Islamic government in this respect are listed and regarding the necessity of high attention to the family as the basic social institution, the rules that should dominate economic activity of women from religious point of view are suggested.